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You need a great many qualities to make a successful man on a nine or an eleven; and just so you need a great many different qualities to make a good citizen.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “You need a great many qualities to make a successful man on a nine or an eleven; and just so you need a great many…”
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Roosevelt asserts that a successful person requires a variety of qualities, just as a good citizen does.
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